“The essence of the new tax, which is actively lobbied by Mikhalkov’s protégé, the Minister of Russian Culture Medinsky, is that every Internet connection in Russia will be subject to a flat tax, the rate of which, according to Mikhalkov, should be P25/month, and according to Medinsky - R300/year. It is not difficult to calculate that in both cases we are talking about the same amount.

The White House denied the information that the President of the United States Barack Obama allegedly did not want to meet with the new NATO head in Washington with a three -day visit to Jens Stoltenberg. The administration of the American president confirmed that these days politicians would indeed not meet, but they indicated: this is not because Obama refused to meet.

Only 30 State Duma deputies out of 450 agreed to submit the standards of the All-Russian Physical Sports Complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP). This, according to RIA Novosti , said the head of the State Duma Committee on Physical Education, Sports and Youth Affairs Igor Anansky. On Wednesday, the State Duma considers the bill on the revival of the TRP in Russia in the first reading.

The investigation in the case of the murder of Russian opposition Boris Nemtsov excluded the version of the commission of a crime based on religious hatred. The key to the current version of the investigators remaining the murder of hiring. This was told by lawyer Ivan Gerasimov, representing the interests of Zaura Dadaev. The lawyer could not name the amount of the "order", which appears in the case file. “I can’t say anything about it,” he told RIA Novosti .

Seventy young Russian rabbis - Jeshiv students will leave in early April from the Moscow Jewish Community Center to dozens of Russian cities to organize festive events and meals for Jewish Easter - Passah . This was reported on Wednesday by the press service of the main rabbi of Russia - Berla Lazar , the President of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia .

As a result of the collapse of the Airbus A320, opera performers Oleg Bryzhak, who was born and began his career in the USSR, and Maria Radner, flying along with her husband and infants, died in the Alps. “The German opera in Dusseldorf/Duysburg grieves about Bas -bariton Oleg Bryzhak. He became one of the victims of the crash of the U49525 flight,” the journalist of the publication Gonna Garling wrote on his Twitter.

The paradoxical situation has developed in the village of Chertkovo of the Rostov region: in order to get to the school, hospital, shops and administration, residents of the village have to illegally cross the border with Ukraine every day. More than a hundred local residents of four high -rise buildings of the Rostov village were isolated and surrounded by the territory of Ukraine.

The metropolitan police detained the thief in the city center in the law of George Kalashyan, nicknamed Kotik. During the inspection, he was seized with a narcotic drug - perhaps hash. During a personal inspection of criminal authority, the investigators found a “bundle with a pressed substance of plant origin and brown color,” the Moscow Agency reports.

“What do all these wild events have in common, which seem to belong not to the world we are used to, but to the times of Genghis Khan and Dracula, or to other worlds altogether?

Last year, the Russians took 1.3 trillion rubles in banks - 1 trillion more than it was believed, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. The publication discovered a new assessment of the outflow of deposits from banks in the report of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), according to which the population deposits last year increased by 9.4% and amounted to 18.55 trillion rubles.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called the “case of honor” the search for the perpetrators of the impudent murder of an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in the Dnipropetrovsk region, of which the department had previously accused the subordinates of the oligarch and the former head of the Dnepropetrovsk region Igor Kolomoisky.

The social network Facebook announced the launch of the On This Day feature, with which users can easily find posts, photos and other content that they shared on this day in other years. This was reported on the official Facebook blog . Currently, the function is not available to all users of the social network.

Alexey Erlikh “Let’s look into this story. It’s an interesting thing - not every day there are strikes in Moscow (yet...). So, first, about what almost everyone knows, that is, about what the “Italian strike." This is when workers work strictly according to instructions, not deviating even one step or minute from them. And then an explosion of surprise is born in me!

The French prosecutor's office began the investigation in connection with the collapse of the passenger aircraft Airbus A320 of the Germanwings airline on suspicion of causing death by negligence. As Der Spiegel previously reported, the prosecutor's office of Marseille opened a criminal case and is currently interrogating eight key witnesses. Information about their personalities has not yet been disclosed.

Jen Psaki completed her work as an official representative of the US State Department and conducted the last briefing before switching to a new job in the White House. She turned to journalists illuminating the work of the State Department with words of gratitude. “Thank you guys, this is very nice. For me it was an honor and pleasure to work with you.